Convicted murderer Joe O'Reilly will learn on Friday if his appeal against his conviction for the murder of his wife Rachel at their home in The Naul, Co Dublin has been successful.

Convicted murderer Joe O'Reilly will have to wait to the New Year before his appeal against his conviction for the murder of his wife Rachel at their home in The Naul, Co Dublin has been successful.

THE appeal by Joe O’Reilly against his conviction for the murder of his wife, Rachel, will be heard by the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) next Thursday.

The appeal by Joe O'Reilly against his conviction for the murder of his wife, Rachel, will be heard by the Court of Criminal Appeal next Thursday.

A date has been set for the hearing of an appeal by Joe O'Reilly against his conviction last year for the murder of his wife, Rachel.

ELEVEN grounds of appeal have been lodged by Joe O’Reilly against his conviction for the murder of his wife Rachel at their home in Co Dublin. He claims the trial was unsatisfactory and his conviction “unsafe”.

An alcoholic father-of-four caught transporting stolen firearms has been jailed for two years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Killer Joe O’Reilly is to appeal his conviction for murdering his wife and mother of their two young children in their home, it was confirmed tonight.

AT 5ft 11in Rachel O’Reilly spent a lot of time towering over acquaintances, both male and female.

BOTH prosecution and defence legal teams accepted that the case against Joe O’Reilly was based entirely on circumstantial evidence.

As Joe O’Reilly woke up on the first morning of a life sentence in Mountjoy prison the families of those whose killers have never been caught were given new hope.

Dubliner Joe O’Reilly was tonight convicted of murdering his wife Rachel after a four-week trial that gripped Ireland.

THE alibi of murder accused Joe O’Reilly told the jury in the Central Criminal Court yesterday that he could be wrong about seeing O’Reilly in the bus depot before 11.00am on the morning of the murder.

A CAR captured on CCTV near the house where Rachel O’Reilly was killed may have been her husband’s.

Joe O’ Reilly told gardaí that he had an affair but that it was over by the time his wife Rachel was found murdered at the family home in north Dublin, a jury heard today.

The jury in the trial of Joe O'Reilly, who is accused of the murder of his wife, Rachel, is due to return to the Central Criminal Court on Monday after four days of legal argument in their absence.

Legal argument in the absence of the jury continued at trial of Joe O' Reilly for the murder of his wife , Rachel, at the Central Criminal Court today.

Rachel O'Reilly tried to defend herself as she was struck on the head a number of times suffering a fractured skull which caused her death, a murder trial jury heard today.

JOE O’REILLY talked about leaving his wife Rachel in the months before she was murdered, a witness told the Central Criminal Court.

Joe O'Reilly told gardaí who found his wife's dead body in a pool of blood that one of the dumbells he used for weight-lifting could have been the murder weapon.

JOE O’REILLY’S first words to his murdered wife when her body was discovered were: “Jesus, Rachel — what did you do?”

A man accused of murdering his wife left a letter in her coffin pleading for forgiveness, a court heard today.

The trial of Dublin man Joe O'Reilly who is accused of murdering his wife Rachel in 2004 was adjourned for a week at the Central Criminal Court today because the judge due to hear the case is not available.

A north Dublin businessman who raped a foreign tourist in a Killarney hotel has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

MURDER accused Joe O’Reilly was remanded on bail for a further period when he appeared at Cloverhill District Court yesterday morning.

MURDER accused Joe O’Reilly passed up a chance to apply for bail, yesterday, at his second court appearance since being charged with the killing of his wife Rachel.

The husband of Rachel O’Reilly will appear in court later today in relation to her death.

The husband of a murdered Dublin woman was charged today with the killing.